In celebration of the National Park Service’s upcoming centennial in 2016, the Obed Wild and Scenic River will host a rare event on July 31 that will feature the blue moon gracing the night sky and giving visitors their last chance to observe this celestial phenomenon for nearly three years.

The free evening program will begin at the Lilly Bluff Overlook parking area at 7:30 p.m. and will conclude by 10 p.m.

I wish to address Gene Policinski’s guest opinion in the July 22 edition of the Roane County News.

Ever hear of the plight of lemmings? They gather occasionally just to throw themselves over a cliff. Sometimes I feel like one of those lemmings caught up in the horde that’s making a mad dash to the cliffs’ edge. I’m trapped, can’t get out. I hear someone saying “Nothing to fear but fear itself .”

Never let it be said that the old curmudgeon does not possess a vivid imagination, but in the boldest exercise of that imagination, he must confess, he would never have imagined that he would ever rise to defend a statement of Donald Trump, but, gentle reader, today is the day when that inconceivable event becomes reality.